Denis Papin

Denis Papin FRS was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

22 August 1647

Born on the same birth day (22 August): Charles Francis Jenkins • Dale Hawkins • David Reimer • Harishankar Parsai • Heiðar Helguson • Henri Cartier-Bresson • James Newland • Luke Russert • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk • Maximilian Bircher-Benner • Terry Catledge • Valerie Harper • Willis R. Whitney